Re: y2k/gary north delusions (fwd)
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Subject: Re: y2k/gary north delusions (fwd) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 18:46:17 -0600 (CST) From: ichudov@Algebra.Com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Paris and London had populations of over a million each and didn't have a sewer system. It was traditional for people to throw their chamber pots out into the street along with the offal from the various animals.
Guess why they had those devastating epidemics.
True enough, but that sort of stuff takes more than a week or two. The various cities could go around setting up port-a-potties and latrines in parks with plastic liners for easy removal, etc. It isn't nearly the civilization shaking event some would make of it. ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------
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Subject: Re: y2k/gary north delusions (fwd) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 18:46:17 -0600 (CST) From: ichudov@Algebra.Com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Paris and London had populations of over a million each and didn't have a sewer system. It was traditional for people to throw their chamber pots out into the street along with the offal from the various animals.
Guess why they had those devastating epidemics.
True enough, but that sort of stuff takes more than a week or two. The various cities could go around setting up port-a-potties and latrines in parks with plastic liners for easy removal, etc.
It isn't nearly the civilization shaking event some would make of it.
Well, at least shitting is not going to be the hardest part of it. - Igor.
In <199812050109.TAA27156@einstein.ssz.com>, on 12/04/98 at 07:09 PM, Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com> said:
True enough, but that sort of stuff takes more than a week or two. The various cities could go around setting up port-a-potties and latrines in parks with plastic liners for easy removal, etc.
It isn't nearly the civilization shaking event some would make of it.
I have never seen anything close to "civilization" in a major city. I doubt anyone would notice the added stench if the sewers went out in one of those cesspools. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 5.0 at: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------
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